Experience Christmas in Cape Breton

Internationally renowned Canadian fiddler and step-dancer Natalie MacMaster, called “the most dynamic performer in Celtic music today” by the Boston Herald, returns to Dayton for a holiday concert Christmas in Cape Breton Sunday, December 4, 2011 at Dayton Masonic Center at 7:00 p.m.

Natalie MacMaster’s Christmas in Cape Breton joyfully recreates the Christmas traditions and customs of her family home on Cape Breton Island off the east end of Nova Scotia. The tuneful program for the whole family blends familiar Christmas carols and songs with Cape Breton fiddle tunes, lively step-dancing and audience favorites. “We have a lot packed into the show,” says MacMaster. “We offer a bit of a contemporary edge to some of our tunes, and other tunes are very beautiful and deep and more thought provoking. But for the most part it’s light, happy, joyful music. There’s lots of dancing, lots of Christmas music, a couple of real tender moments where my mother speaks to the audience. There are some Christmas carols, of course, and Christmas melodies played on the fiddle, and some traditions I share with the audience of Cape Breton during Christmastime.”

MacMaster and her band—Mac Morin (piano), Nathaniel Smith (cello), John Chiasson (bass) and J.D. Blair (drums)—will be joined for a few songs by the Kettering Children’s Choir.